Tom Pullings
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Tom Pullings is a fictional Royal Navy officer and close protégé of Captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin historical naval novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Pullings canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6189783 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Pullings Context triple: [HMS Surprise, notableCrewMember, Tom Pullings]
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A.
Steven Pemberton
Steven Pemberton is a British computer scientist and software engineer known for his work on programming languages, web standards, and contributions to the development of ABC and early Python influences.
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B.
Phil Woolpert
Phil Woolpert was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of San Francisco to multiple national championships in the 1950s.
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C.
John Hull
John Hull was a prominent 17th-century Boston merchant, silversmith, and colonial official best known for serving as the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s mintmaster.
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D.
Nigel Starr
Nigel Starr is a music producer known for his work on the hip-hop track "Ego Trippin'."
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E.
Timothy Drury
Timothy Drury is an American keyboardist, guitarist, and songwriter best known for his work with rock bands such as the Eagles and Whitesnake.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Pullings Target entity description: Tom Pullings is a fictional Royal Navy officer and close protégé of Captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin historical naval novels.
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A.
Steven Pemberton
Steven Pemberton is a British computer scientist and software engineer known for his work on programming languages, web standards, and contributions to the development of ABC and early Python influences.
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B.
Phil Woolpert
Phil Woolpert was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of San Francisco to multiple national championships in the 1950s.
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C.
John Hull
John Hull was a prominent 17th-century Boston merchant, silversmith, and colonial official best known for serving as the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s mintmaster.
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D.
Nigel Starr
Nigel Starr is a music producer known for his work on the hip-hop track "Ego Trippin'."
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E.
Timothy Drury
Timothy Drury is an American keyboardist, guitarist, and songwriter best known for his work with rock bands such as the Eagles and Whitesnake.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy officer
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character in a novel series ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| allegiance | Royal Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Aubrey–Maturin series
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blue at the Mizzen NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarissa Oakes NERFINISHED ⓘ Desolation Island NERFINISHED ⓘ H.M.S. Surprise NERFINISHED ⓘ Master and Commander NERFINISHED ⓘ Post Captain NERFINISHED ⓘ The Commodore NERFINISHED ⓘ The Far Side of the World NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fortune of War NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hundred Days NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ionian Mission NERFINISHED ⓘ The Letter of Marque NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mauritius Command NERFINISHED ⓘ The Nutmeg of Consolation NERFINISHED ⓘ The Reverse of the Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ The Surgeon’s Mate NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thirteen-Gun Salute NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wine-Dark Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ The Yellow Admiral NERFINISHED ⓘ Treason’s Harbour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
brave
ⓘ
dutiful ⓘ modest ⓘ |
| characterType | loyal subordinate ⓘ |
| closeAssociateOf | Jack Aubrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Patrick O’Brian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | historical naval fiction ⓘ |
| hasFictionalRole |
naval officer protégé
ⓘ
supporting character ⓘ |
| hasRank |
commander
ⓘ
lieutenant ⓘ midshipman ⓘ post-captain ⓘ |
| isProtégéOf | Jack Aubrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literaryUniverse | Aubrey–Maturin universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeEra | Napoleonic Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | Royal Navy officer ⓘ |
| partOf | Royal Navy hierarchy (fictional depiction) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesOnShip |
HMS Sophie
NERFINISHED
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HMS Surprise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesUnder | Jack Aubrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Tom Pullings Description of subject: Tom Pullings is a fictional Royal Navy officer and close protégé of Captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin historical naval novels.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.